Atmospheric Environment 44 (2010) 5323
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Guest Editorial
Atmospheric chemistry mechanisms, UC Davis, December 10 – 12, 2008
The 2nd Biennial Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry Mechanisms was held at the Air Quality Research Centre, UC Davis, in December 2008. This issue of Atmospheric Environment includes papers resulting from that meeting. The meeting included sessions on:
Uncertainties In Chemical Mechanisms New Evolving Chemistries Gas Phase To Secondary Organic Aerosols Condensed And Multiphase Phase Chemistry Chemical Mechanism Evaluation Developments In Mechanism Reduction Techniques Chemistry In The Free Troposphere Chemical Mechanism Implementation For Policy
There were also 31 poster presentations. The program reflected current ‘hot’ topics in atmospheric chemistry, including new routes to radicals, the role of oxygenated intermediates in aerosol formation and links between detailed chemistry and mechanisms that can be used in Eulerian models, as well as
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applications-led research, especially in relation to policy. The meeting covered laboratory, chamber, field and modeling research and emphasized the active and necessary links between these activities. The Conference has rapidly established itself as an important forum for the development of all aspects of atmospheric chemistry mechanisms. The 3rd Conference will be held in December 2010, again in Davis. Of the seventeen papers published in this issue about half are on gas phase and one on aqueous phase mechanisms. Most of the other papers, though, are on, or are related to condensed phase or surface processes, including secondary organic aerosol formation. There is one paper on gas phase kinetics and one on the intriguing story of heterogeneous ClNO2 formation and its implications. Ian Barnes Wuppertal, Germany Mike Pilling* Leeds, UK * Corresponding author. E-mail address:
[email protected] (M. Pilling).